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Ask HN: Why is Go lang so popular for cloud infrastructure - gazarullz
Why there are so many tools built on top of Go now-days and not in other languages like Java, Rust, C# or C/C++ ?<p>What motivates people to pick Go instead of the others which are more stable and seasoned or more performant ?
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tracker1
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Israel Calls a Man a “Terrorist” Until They Realized He Was an Israeli Jew - 3eto
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/22/israel-calls-a-man-its-soldiers-killed-a-terrorist-until-they-realized-he-was-an-israeli-jew/
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NumberSix
This is the definition of "terrorism" from the FBI web site:
[https://www.fbi.gov/about-
... | {
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Developer One-Ups Google with Google+ Comments for WordPress - bkerensa
http://benjaminkerensa.com/2013/04/23/developer-one-ups-google-with-google-comments-for-wordpress
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ignostic
I am actually getting quite tired of having Twitter, Facebook, and now G+
connected comments. I don't like giving out those permiss... | {
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Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API - cek
https://nest.com/whats-happening/
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gergles
> I’m a Works with Nest developer. Will I be able to access and control Nest
> devices moving forward?
> No. The Actions on Google Smart Home platform does not provide open API
> access to Nest devices, so it cannot b... | {
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Ask HN: How do you overcome the chicken and egg problem? - jwwest
You're building a community driven site that relies on member generated content. Potential users don't want to participate unless there's content. What do you do?
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veb
Make 20 different user accounts. Create 20 different pieces of content, from
... | {
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Why Mailchimp is no longer in the Shopify App Store - blackdogie
https://community.shopify.com/c/Shopify-Apps/Here-s-why-Mailchimp-is-no-longer-in-the-Shopify-App-Store/td-p/493593
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kweks
We run Shopify across a plurality of domains. Over the last 12 months,
especially with the release of "Shopify Payments" (Str... | {
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Avoiding common HTML5 mistakes - joshuacc
http://html5doctor.com/avoiding-common-html5-mistakes/
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andybak
Reading this, does anyone else get a sinking feeling regarding the chances of
semantic markup succeeding?
It's too easy to get it wrong and the subtleties are, well, too subtle.
It's never going to work.
... | {
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Website Builder Webflow (YC S13) to Exceed $200M Valuation in New Funding - ballmers_peak
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/website-builder-webflow-to-exceed-200-million-valuation-in-new-funding?pu=hackernewsqf889u&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock
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vlokshin
Congrats. They deserve it.
Even though my... | {
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Eternity in six hours: Easy intergalactic spreading of intelligent life [pdf] - gwern
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/847d/8dabb12f67124868af0876c77538e4fd1c60.pdf
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programd
Needs a (2013) tag in the title.
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Ask HN: What's your favourite ISO standard code? - gidztech
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Nicksil
I'm a big fan 8601
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601)
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jessemillar
Came here to say the same thing. 8601 can really helps simplify the handling
of dates in APIs. [http://apiux.com/2013/03/20/5-l... | {
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A protocol for detection of Covid-19 using CRISPR diagnostics [pdf] - ejstronge
https://www.broadinstitute.org/files/publications/special/COVID-19%20detection%20(updated).pdf
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bionhoward
Legit! We’re also working on the same exact type of CRISPR (Cas13) to
treat/prevent CoV (as an extension of the Bit Pharma Bio... | {
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Ask HN: french start-up in a difficult situation, looking for feedback/ideas. - Personne
Hi All,<p>I am the founder of a french start-up in a difficult situation, and I am looking for fresh perspective of what to do. I feel HN is the best place to ask. So please take a few min, and tell me what you think.<p>We are a... | {
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Yacc is Not Dead (2010) - pmoriarty
http://research.swtch.com/yaccalive/#
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marktangotango
Yacc may not be dead, but parser generation should be, in my opinion. If one
is designing a language today one should, and indeed most new lanvuages in the
last 5-10 years have, avoided the pathological ambiguities of C++. ... | {
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Chinese QQ Browser Caught Sending User Data to Its Servers - Jerry2
https://citizenlab.org/2016/03/researchers-identify-major-security-and-privacy-issues-in-popular-china-browser-application-qq/
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contingencies
_The Android version of the browser transmits personally identifiable data,
including a user’s search t... | {
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Two Factor Auth List - davis
http://twofactorauth.org/
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gergles
You should probably rename Google Auth to "TOTP" since that's what is actually
supported.
Neat idea for a site.
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nacs
Agreed. I don't see why they list Google Auth and Authy separately when they
both support the same TOTP system.
~~~
richbra... | {
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Can Chrome Sync or Firefox Sync be trusted with sensitive data? - tillulen
https://palant.de/2018/03/13/can-chrome-sync-or-firefox-sync-be-trusted-with-sensitive-data
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ddtaylor
Poking around his previous articles I was surprised to see this:
> At the end of the day, OpenSSL is a library, not an end-user product... | {
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Ask HN: Anyone else in South Carolina? - jamesmp98
I was wondering because from what I see, the tech industry here sucks compared to where I was before (Georgia) and was curious if anyone else was marooned here and if you work in the tech industry.
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ilkhan4
Yep, I'm in the Greenville area. It's not quite Silicon... | {
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Ask HN: What is the ONE most important thing you've learnt on HN? - slice_of_life
Answers can be technical (like a server config loophole you had always overlooked) or non-technical.<p>For me, it was to cut down on hyperbole when communicating. Before, I used to make statements like 'I am sure everyone feels the ... | {
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Salary Below Which You Earn More on Unemployment in Each State - kolz13
https://www.zippia.com/research/unemployment-stimulus-by-state/
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hkmshao
Really surprising numbers! Haven't seen it on other news media.
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ASk HN the case for going all OpenID Vs. local accounts Vs. Both - wastedbrains
We are implementing a user system and wanted to base it entirely off OpenID. We will store some account details, but use OpenID for all authentication and such. We were curious how much pushback we will get from people that don't have Op... | {
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Unicorn: a simple and flexible abstraction of BigTable-like databases - haifeng
https://github.com/haifengl/unicorn
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jdf
Not to be a stickler about name collisions, but Facebook wrote a research
paper about a graph database called Unicorn back in 2013:
[https://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/courses/2015/6.S897/rea... | {
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US government confirms Clinton emails contained top secret information - wslh
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/01/29/us-government-confirms-clinton-emails-contained-top-secret-information/
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mark_l_watson
A year ago I was a Clinton supporter, even though I didn't like her support
for the Iraq war and her imperi... | {
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Java Pain - robin_reala
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/06/20/Hating-Java-in-2014
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chipotle_coyote
I'm seeing a lot of comments here along the lines of "this is just a problem
Java newbies would have and this Tim Bray guy, whoever he is, doesn't want to
take the time to learn the tools."
Well. True... | {
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Show HN: Pogo – Host your own podcasts - gmemstr
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/pogo-3
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bernardhalas
Nice presentation page, but it doesn't explain how does this work. It says I
can host my own podcasts. What exactly is meant by that? I can host podcast on
a hard-drive on a machine with public IP. Or I can ho... | {
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One billion people worldwide stop breathing while they sleep - anarbadalov
https://mosaicscience.com/story/sleep-apnea-apnoea-snoring-heart-disease-breathing/
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rpiguy
If you are tired at all during the day, get an at home sleep study as soon as
you can. Treatment makes a world of difference.
I wasn't diagnosed ... | {
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} |
Learning Lisp: Start with Scheme, CL, or Arc? - binglo
I've never used any Lisp before but would like to start. PG's ANSI CL book looks good, as does Seibel's PCL book, but I've also heard great things about SICP. Then again, I see that Arc has a pretty sizable tutorial, and since it's written by PG, I'm guessing it... | {
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Market Maturity (1997) - hliyan
http://www.uie.com/articles/market_maturity/
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tobias3
I think there is a stage 5 now:
An Open Source project becomes good enough and takes over the market. Because
the price of the Open Source product is zero you cannot compete with
proprietary software. Additionally your softw... | {
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Twitter API v1.1 sneakily removes existing resources - sferik
https://twitter.com/sferik/status/243996033359704064
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f055
Isn't GET lists practically the same as GET lists/all which in turn is renamed
in 1.1 to GET lists/list ?
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Concurrency in Go - chaitanyav
http://chaitanyav.github.io/2014/08/22/concurrency-with-go/
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monoid
[http://talks.golang.org/2013/bestpractices.slide#25](http://talks.golang.org/2013/bestpractices.slide#25)
=)
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chaitanyav
Thank you, Added the link to the post.
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Upgrading to MacOS Sierra will break your SSH keys and lock you out - raisedadead
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/upgrading-to-macos-sierra-will-break-your-ssh-keys-and-lock-you-out-of-your-own-servers-f413ac96139a
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gumby
umm, no. I have 1024 bit keys and they have continued to work fine from my Mac
to various s... | {
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Secure your site from the “not secure” chrome/Firefox 2017 warning with this app - stilliard
http://www.downloadcrew.com/article/34753-https_checker
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aiur3la
Link to source without the malware packaging (?):
[https://github.com/HTTPSChecker/](https://github.com/HTTPSChecker/)
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30 Years Ago They Retired at 35: An Update - JacobAldridge
http://www.nextavenue.org/30-years-ago-they-retired-35-update/
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jpatokal
In case you were wondering how they pulled this off at 35:
_The author retired from his CPA job at KPMG to live the life of world travel
and financial freedom. When he retired in ... | {
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Big data checklist: make better data-driven decisions - Kiplot
https://kiplot.com/blog/big-data
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testing674
I feel like I understand Big Data a lot better now. It isn't just hype
| {
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5 Sales-Spiking Website Tweaks Gurus Don’t Know - JayInt
http://attentionthievery.informationhighwayman.com/
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kaens
Ok, what the heck is this?
I decided to go ahead and throw an email at this to see if anything came up.
The wording sets my "scam" sensors off like mad. Maybe I just have a learned
response to "on... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Does anyone know of any startup founded by military veterans? - pjnewton
I'm curious if there are any veteran backed/founded startups out there. I'm finding it exceptionally difficult to translate my prior military experience and communicate the value military veteran can bring to the fast paced hectic start... | {
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AppHarbor Sets their pricing and asks for feedback. - cipherzero
http://appharbor.com/page/pricing
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skilesare
I want to give good feedback. But I also want to be a little bit of jerk. I'm
pretty sure that I woke up this morning and produced 20MB of data before my
coffee finished brewing. Here are some things ... | {
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} |
Google Denies Social Network Called Circles Will Debut Today, Despite Report - ggordan
http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20110313/new-google-circles-would-have-more-nuanced-sharing-but-google-says-no-launch-imminent/
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zeedotme
We're certain the product, which RWW discovered the name for, will be
launching at G... | {
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How often do you talk to your close friends? - pixelart
I'm transitioning to adulthood right now, and I've found that one of the hardest parts is that I don't talk to my close friends as often anymore (or I just don't have close friends).
In high school and college, I usually talked with close fr... | {
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Skeptic Physicist finds he now agrees global warming is real - hendler
http://news.yahoo.com/skeptic-finds-now-agrees-global-warming-real-142616605.html
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marshray
I always heard the Earth was warming because we were still coming out of the
ice age from 10,000 years ago.
Seems like the relevant questions to me... | {
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} |
Shareaholic v1.7 is here - More services, more options (would love your feedback) - meattle
http://blog.shareaholic.com/2009/04/23/update-shareaholic-v17-now-available-more-services-more-options/
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meattle
Amongst numerous other additions & improvements, we’ve added the option to
turn on the Shareaholic button in... | {
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App Engine releases full-text search - adrinavarro
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/looking-for-search-find-it-on-google.html
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abeppu
Some folks wondered for a long time whether AWS would roll out a search
product, and they finally did like 4 weeks ago. And as the blogpost mentions,
full-text sea... | {
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Brazil education standards contribute to learning crisis - tokenadult
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-brazil-bad-education-20121118,0,623172.story
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bulletmagnet
You can thank this guy for it: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire>
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Welcome to the Next Level of Bullshit - jelliclesfarm
http://nautil.us/issue/89/the-dark-side/welcome-to-the-next-level-of-bullshit
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reilly3000
At risk of being too pedantic even for HN, I have to say that a news article
written by GPT-3 isn't "Fake News". Maybe you could called it "artificially
authored news" o... | {
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A Photo Gallery of MeteorWrongs - apsec112
http://meteorites.wustl.edu/meteorwrongs/meteorwrongs.htm
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themodelplumber
I like it. There's a huge contingent here on HN that learns best via
"wrongness demos" like these. In software they are often packaged as "anti-
patterns". You could describe meteors all day, to ... | {
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Libvirt – The Unsung Hero of Cloud Computing (2013) - vikrantrathore
https://vyomtech.com/2013/12/17/libvirt_the_unsung_hero_of_cloud_computing.html
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guerby
We're currently migrating from VMware to libvirt, we discovered the cockpit
project and cockpit-machines to manage VMs:
[https://cockpit-project.org/](http... | {
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Evoke - A crash course in changing the world. - lzimm
http://www.urgentevoke.com/
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PostOnce
There's a red arrow on the comic that turns the page. The same red arrow is at
the bottom and takes you to a login screen.
Momentarily confusing design. It causes lost traffic.
| {
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Imperial College pandemic code: “ thousands of lines of undocumented C” - somerandomness
https://twitter.com/neil_ferguson/status/1241835454707699713
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jjgreen
The usual estimate is 15 defects per thousand lines of code. I really hope
that we've not destroyed the economy on a operator precedence error ...
~~~
ch... | {
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3% ROI for selling my iPhone app using MochiAds - avgarrison
http://andrewgarrison.com/Blog/tabid/62/EntryId/4/MochiAds-Experiment.aspx
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gyardley
No one has been able to advertise paid applications on the iPhone platform and
get a positive return from the advertising itself. The name of the game is to
generate... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Marc Andreessen denies existence of middle class - asanwal
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/12/marc-andreessen-and-the-middle-class.html
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henrikschroder
Whenever I've discussed class with my friends, it's always the case that the
people who were born upper-middle class, and have stayed there, are comple... | {
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Looking for a co-founder? post here (3 rules apply) - sharpshoot
Ok with all the cofounder finding going on. I thought i'd start a useful thread.<p>There are 3 rules<p>1. Put in your location in the comments
2. If there is someone in your local area looking for a cofounder meet them this weekend.
3. Not too much spie... | {
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Dilution - firloop
https://blog.ycombinator.com/dilution/
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birken
> Remember that raising money is not success. Raising huge amounts of money
> early on is very rarely how companies win (though it is sometimes how
> companies lose)
I honestly think one of the reasons the company I worked for was successful
was ... | {
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} |
UBiome Offices Searched by FBI - jbergstroem
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ubiome-offices-searched-by-fbi-11556301287
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schmatz
I was stupid enough to sign up for their SmartGut program. They never clearly
disclose how much the test costs if you opt to use your insurance. They’re
$2700. Not only that, they make it... | {
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GameNetworkingSockets – Reliable and unreliable messages over UDP - ivanfon
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets
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Animats
Second Life does something very similar. Reliable and unreliable messages,
binary format, multiple messages in a single datagram.
Unreliable messsages are for ones that are... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Telescope Making [video] - gosub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYpjlQpsANY
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imroot
This is something that I am really passionate about.
I have a farm in the middle of nowhere in Kentucky, that I've put a glass
studio in part of the unfinished side of my pole barn (I use the other side
for electronics assemb... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Ask HN: PHP, interfaces, typehinting subtype and LSP? - enterx
interface I<p>{<p>function foo(stdClass $arg);<p>}<p>class Test extends stdClass<p>{<p>}<p>class Implementation implements I<p>{<p>function foo(Test $arg)<p>{<p>}<p>}<p>Result:<p>Fatal error: Declaration of InterfaceImplementation::foo() must be compatib... | {
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Ask HN: Anyone would like to team up? I have tons of unfinished projects. - hinoglu
I have many projects laying around, waiting for their heros to get them up and complete. They might not be the next biggest things, but might be fun.<p>Projects are based on python and django.<p>Some of them are:<p>1 - A social job l... | {
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Google Data Collection - proper analysis[pdf] - oox
https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DCN-Google-Data-Collection-Paper.pdf
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oox
Finally someone has made a proper analysis with tracking network traffic,
analysing content of communication with google servers, analysing user
agreements. Read... | {
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} |
Python 3.8.0a1 is now available for testing - edmorley
https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2019/02/python-380a1-is-now-available-for.html
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luhn
Notably new is the assignment expressions [1]. This was quite controversial
and the battle around it caused Guido to step down as BDFL [2].
I personally think it's quite... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Dart: A Simple, Elegant Language Programmers Will Love - egduff
http://blog.stablekernel.com/dart-google-language
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gmosx
Dart is not just an elegant language, more like a complete programming
environment.
| {
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Ask HN: Best books/resources on running a lean/bootstrapped company? - philippnagel
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hawe
The Single Founder Handbook -
[http://www.singlefounderhandbook.com/](http://www.singlefounderhandbook.com/)
?
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pacnw
The obvious ones: The Lean Startup - Eric Ries, Rework - Jason Fried & DHH,
Getting Real - Jaso... | {
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Symmetry Minute - unixhero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry_minute
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niftich
Although I'm familiar with this concept since the implementation of ITF
(integrated clock-face timetables) in Central Europe, I found the second half
of this article (as of this revision [1]) hard to read. After finishing it, I
fel... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Rintagi Low-Code Generated ReactJS Applications: The Future Is Reactive - Rintagi
https://medium.com/rintagi/rintagi-low-code-generated-reactjs-applications-the-future-is-reactive-e430319687ef
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Rintagi
Rintagi, the first open-source low-code development platform from Robocoder,
empowers users to create enterpris... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Studios win $110 million in TorrentSpy suit - nreece
http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSN0831061320080509
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rms
Is this the first ruling to establish that torrent files themselves are
illegal in the USA?
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What's your take on the save mysql? - pedalpete
http://www.helpmysql.org
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tentonova2
It's duplicitous and wrong. He sold the product, and now he is actively
undermining the product that he sold with the potential of costing Sun/Oracle
considerable sums of money to defend against his clearly self-serving claims... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How the human penis lost its spines - tokenadult
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/09/penis.spines.genes/
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btilly
The article talks about the genetics, but doesn't really answer the
evolutionary question. So I'm going to speculate in a somewhat informed
fashion.
First I'll start with a fun fact. Humans have a... | {
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WIKILEAKS RELEASE: The Global Intelligence Files. Over 5 million emails - locusm
http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html?nocache
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keeran
The press release (if servers are still being hammered):
<http://pastebin.com/D7sR4zhT>
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Business networking for nerds (2017) - Olshansky
http://benjaminreinhardt.com/networking-for-nerds/
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jnbiche
I've recently returned to professional programming after working in another
profession for 10 years. My former profession (let's call it "medical
transcription" for the sake of my anonymity) is a dying pr... | {
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} |
No-cost desktop software development is dead on Windows 8 - Goronmon
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/no-cost-desktop-software-development-is-dead-on-windows-8
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programminggeek
I think that non-windows devs don't realize how much Windows devs LOVE Visual
Studio. They will spend however much ... | {
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Dropped wrappers and dirty cups: the tricks bosses play at interviews - adrian_mrd
https://www.theguardian.com/money/shortcuts/2019/jun/05/dropped-wrappers-and-dirty-coffee-cups-the-tricks-bosses-play-at-interviews
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daly
It is a Navy tradition not to wash your coffee cup.
While I was never in the Navy, my coffe... | {
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} |
Elsevier's Digital Doc Prototype: Is This The Scientific Article of the Future? - ExJournalist
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/elseviers_prototype_is_this_the_scientific_article.php
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paulsb
Here is a FriendFeed discussion about it: [http://friendfeed.com/science-
online/cbbe2531/news-releases-...](http://fr... | {
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} |
How to Hire Software Engineers During a Remote Work Crisis - loumal
https://builtin.com/remote-work-software-engineering-perspectives/how-hire-software-engineers-during-remote-work-crisis
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engineertorque
some great thoughts here on how to keep interviews consistent, etc.
~~~
loumal
agree. some interesting point... | {
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Shall we fork Debian? - walterbell
http://debianfork.org
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almost
> only few of us have the time and patience to interact with Debian on a
> voluntary basis.
This might present a problem if they actually do try and fork it. I imagine it
would take more time a patience to run a competing fork than to interact w... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Is there any one book or resource on search engine development & theory? - rneufeld
I'm working on a search engine for a web application I am developing and realized I really didn't know that much about making search engines. I've taken a bit of AI & Expert Systems in school but never really run into any... | {
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Advocates of splitting California into six states gathering signatures - ilamont
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-petition-drive-underway-to-split-california-into-six-states-20140621-story.html
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SAI_Peregrinus
Bah. We only need three more states to have 53. One nation, indivisible...
~~~
dllthomas
... | {
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Great Trail FAQ - brudgers
https://thegreattrail.ca/about-us/faq/
======
musgravepeter
There is some great info at
[http://www.ridethetrail.ca/](http://www.ridethetrail.ca/). Many parts of the
trail are on roads or have ATV access - which is not ideal for those who
prefer human powered locomotion.
A cross-Canada trai... | {
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} |
Ask HN: About.me for business? - taphangum
Wondering if this exists? I've been googling around and haven't found anything remotely close to what i need.<p>The only solutions that i seem to be finding are the run of the mill template type sites.<p>There doesn't seem to be a simple, elegant landing page service out ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Computing shortest distances incrementally with Spark - wak
http://insightdataengineering.com/blog/incr-short-dist-graphx/
======
bitL
Yikes, I had to stop when the author mentioned MapReduce for computing
shortest distance. That's one of the problems for which MapReduce approach is
extraordinarily bad.
~~~
ignoram... | {
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Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN - nwrk
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/03/stop-biodiversity-loss-or-we-could-face-our-own-extinction-warns-un
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sverige
A great place to start would be to seriously limit or eliminate pesticides
like Roundup. Don't believe the a... | {
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} |
What's Hiding Inside Egypt's Great Pyramid? Tiny Robots May Find Out - DrScump
https://www.livescience.com/61435-great-pyramid-mysterious-voids.html
======
ggm
After the robot and the inflatable blimp die, future archeologists will be
able to show that the Ancient Egyptians invented WiFi and discovered Helium,
but not... | {
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} |
Rich Kids of App.net - ohnoinky
http://richkidsofappdotnet.tumblr.com
======
true_religion
What's with the smear campaign?
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truebecomefalse
How do you know they are rich?
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Ideas to get more clients for freelancers and agencies - rabbitsfoot8
https://tiiny.host/75-ideas-freelancers-agencies/
======
rabbitsfoot8
Hey guys,
I've been working on a resource to help freelancers & agencies get more
clients, thought it would be useful in these times.
Whilst browsing around I couldn't ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Chrome dictionary plugin with context extraction and spaced repetition - vgr789
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vocblocks-lookup/ehnoadhemhhkcggnacpabgdpnoacadao
======
vgr789
Hi there! I've published a dictionary extension in the Google Chrome store
recently and it would be nice to get some feedbac... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
IOS Tutorial: Connect to Foursquare using OAuth - Fortaymedia
http://ios-blog.com/tutorials/ios-connect-to-foursquare-using-oauth/
======
stevekinney
This is super useful. Oauth isn't my favorite thing to work with, and I'm new
to iOS. This helped on both ends.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Gitlet: Git implemented in JavaScript - fogus
http://gitlet.maryrosecook.com/
======
maryrosecook
I wrote a short post about how and why I made Gitlet:
[http://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/introducing-
gitlet](http://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/introducing-gitlet)
~~~
317070
I can't seem to find the rebase code? I've al... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
AirBnB for Driveways - mmcconnell1618
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/01/homeowners-rent-out-driveways-for-money/
======
johnmurch
For cities, especially home owners who have a deeded parking spot, but doesn't
have a cart - this is genius! Airbnb for parking, going to be big!
| {
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} |
SenderDefender open beta, client side encrypted big file transfer - mbranton
https://www.senderdefender.com/
======
mbranton
Hi guys,
Looking for testing and feedback, let me know what you think.
| {
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} |
Developments in tech in Toronto over the past seven years - salbowski
https://blog.brainstation.io/how-toronto-became-a-global-tech-leader-in-7-years/
======
kirbypineapple
The wages in Toronto are laughable. In the praries it's possible to make maybe
10 to 20k less than Toronto salaries but the houses are half the pr... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Porting a 15 yr old .NET 1.1 Virtual CPU Tiny OS school project to .NET Core 2.0 - riqbal
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/PortingA15YearOldNET11VirtualCPUTinyOperatingSystemSchoolProjectToNETCore20.aspx
======
taspeotis
Porting a 15 year old .NET 1.1 Virtual CPU Tiny OS school project to .NET 2.0 (hanselman.co... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Tiny mites spark big battle over imports of French cheese (2013) - Vlad81b
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/05/11/180570160/tiny-mites-spark-big-battle-over-imports-of-french-cheese
======
robin_reala
Charles Babbage (of Analytical Engine fame) wrote an entire chapter of his
sort-of-autobiography where he ima... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why Perl Didn't Win - nkurz
http://outspeaking.com/words-of-technology/why-perl-didnt-win.html
======
ghshephard
I was a Perl scripter (I never rose to the level of JAPH) from around 1998 to
2002, with my final accomplishment being a two-way HRIS synchronization system
between our installation of peoplesoft and our LD... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The amazing intelligence of crows [video] - critic
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html
======
CalmQuiet
Joshua Klein makes a _hot_ presentation. And shows how one can turn an
intellectual obsession into a potent scientific/societal contribution.
The crow-intelligence de... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Plastic Injection Molding (2015) [video] - jstimpfle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMjtmsr3CqA
======
Noumenon72
I operated a line like this for seven years before becoming a programmer,
except that we extruded continuous paper-thin sheets of plastic for people to
print signs on. That was a more skilled process, I g... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Users report duplicate, dummy Facebook accounts in PH - tim_sw
https://www.rappler.com/nation/263121-users-report-duplicate-facebook-dummy-accounts-philippines
======
skytreader
This is even more alarming as:
1\. the dummy accounts are spotted mere days after mass protests against a
controversial (to say the least) A... | {
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} |
Bing sees things differently - koops
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3604/3585051300_d23a37a32e_o.png
======
RiderOfGiraffes
I saw this 8 hours ago via this link:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=635819>
It took me ages to see what the point was, but when I did I was unsurprised.
Perhaps that's a comment on my e... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The lottery is a tax, an inefficient, regressive, and exploitative tax - teslacar
http://metrocosm.com/state-lotteries-high-cost-low-return-and-absurdly-dishonest/
======
kwillets
A tax on mathematical illiteracy.
| {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Disney's Bob Iger walked away from a Twitter purchase because of “nastiness” - laurex
https://qz.com/1713764/disneys-bob-iger-walked-away-from-a-twitter-purchase-because-of-nastiness/
======
buboard
Thank fuck
------
kylek
>> Iger cited the possibility that toxic dimensions of the Twitter experience
could hurt Disney... | {
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} |
Less Lag, More Frag - Eset Tee Shirt - help me get one please - teksquisite
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150202013805908&set=a.10150158319155908.331653.56844830907&theater
======
teksquisite
They are saying that it is NOT for sale. They "might" have a contest because I
have twittered and FB'd about wanti... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
MMO 2D Competitive Space Action Clone of Cosmic Rift - esuen
I've created a clone of 'Cosmic Rift' called 'Astral Rift'. It is played in the browser and made with Javascript, NodeJS and JoyJS.<p>The codebase and the gameplay instructions are here https://github.com/esuen/... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Head & Shoulders has a dirty secret - arunitc
http://dirtysecret.greenpeace.org/
======
panarky
Head & Shoulders doesn't appear to contain any palm oil, at least according to
the product's Material Safety Data Sheet.
[http://www.pg.com/productsafety/msds/beauty_care/haircare/he...](http://www.pg.com/productsafety/msd... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
This startup thinks devs should get paid for their open source projects - ariehkovler
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/10/xscode-launches-subscription-platform-to-monetize-open-source-projects/
======
helad
About time! I Hope the OSS community and companies who use open source
projects will embrace this initiative.
---... | {
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} |
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